Following his release from a five-year prison stint for a 2009 narcotics conviction in Waterbury, 34-year-old Miguel Colon was serving out five years of special parole nestled in a single-family brick home on McKinley Street, in a placid residential neighborhood of Torrington, a city whose sleepy nature obscures its growing heroin problem.

In the cover of working-class families with neatly manicured lawns is where Colon set up his drug-dealing venture, allegedly selling heroin and cocaine out of the house and his high-powered blue Acura, police said in an arrest warrant unsealed Monday in Superior Court.

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Weeks earlier, on June 19, Colon along with 37-year-old Felix Ramos were arrested minutes after 6 p.m. by police serving a high-risk warrant on the 158 McKinley St. home. Combat-clad officers from the city’s special response team set off a flash bang as a diversionary tactic in the backyard of the home and used a battering ram to bash in the front door, taking the two men into custody without incident.

Concerned neighbors gathered outside.

For a few minutes, their quiet neighborhood was overrun by officers and looked war-torn, a concussive blast of the flash bang spooking those who sat down at the table for dinners.

Inside, police found 8.3 grams of cocaine, a small amount of marijuana, $13,000 in cash 300 bags of heroin, most of which was stashed in plastic case for a power drill found in the garage which housed Colon’s gleaming blue Acura, the same vehicle undercover cops said they saw Colon selling heroin out of June 18.

Sgt. Dustin Baldis, head of the city’s vice unit, and officers in the detective bureau fingered Colon after gathering intelligence from confidential sources.

Police said they performed a series of controlled buys at the McKinley St. home, at least one which involved one of Colon’s associates.

Colon’s arrest warrant was originally sealed for two weeks while police continued working the case.

On June 18, around 5 p.m., Baldis and officer Matt Faulkner were driving in an unmarked police car northbound on Wilson Avenue, near Cook Street, when they saw Colon’s Acura, with Florida license plates, traveling behind them.

Colon was accompanied by an unknown woman. Baldis recognized Colon from booking and probation photos.

A man whom police said was a known heroin addict, was walking north on the sidewalk of Wilson Avenue, in the company of two people.

Colon stopped the Acura next to him, and the man hopped into the backseat, police said. He puttered down the street for 50 feet, long enough for 12 wax bags of heroin to allegedly be sold for $80, stamped with Colon’s distinctive dealing signature, “Bingo.”

Colon dropped off Leblanc and sped away.

Faulkner exited the police cruiser and tracked Leblanc down on foot. Back at headquarters, he was charged and booked on a single count of heroin possession.

He told police how Colon texted him earlier asking if he needed drugs. At 5:30 p.m., he called him and they arranged a meeting.

According to his arrest warrant, Colon has a long criminal history with numerous arrests for possession and narcotics sale. He has entered a not guilty plea to two counts of narcotics possession, two counts of narcotics possession with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana possession, in addition to narcotics possession, narcotics sale and possession of narcotics.

Held on a combined $100,000 bond, Colon is expected back in court July 22. Ramos is also still in custody on $50,000 and expected in court the same day.

Ramos’ public defender, Carol Goldberg, claimed at Ramos’ arraignment he was visiting a family friend at the McKinley Street home and the allegations he faces are “materially different” than his alleged co-conspirator.

Ramos was found in possession of a marijuana cigarette and admitted pot found on a kitchen table belonged to him, police said.